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Budget DAC/Amp for HD598 ~$100 range?

post #1 of 5
6/20/11 at 10:39pm
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Hi,

 

I'm usually a fan of speakers, but I'm away for the summer and have to have headphones at work. Thus, I bought the Sennheiser HD598s thinking that would suffice until I got back to my home setup. But I got a nasty surprise when they sounded really terrible!

 

I have good reason to believe that my work laptop as a source is really killing the sound quality of the Sennheisers. I just need something good that I can use at work that isn't too fancy but will do the job (I will probably end up keeping the headphones and DAC/amp for when I can't use my speakers, e.g. when my suitemates are asleep).

 

I've been looking at the FiiO E7 and Nuforce uDAC-2, and was also recommended the Nuforce Icon Mobile.

 

Does anyone have input on this?

 

Thank you!

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post #2 of 5
6/20/11 at 10:53pm

Can you describe the nasty sound?

 

I'm perfectly happy with an Anedio D1 biggrin.gif

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post #3 of 5
6/21/11 at 7:27am
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Sure. Some tones have got a grungy edge to it, and in most music I hear a lot of graininess.
 

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Originally Posted by wind016 View Post

Can you describe the nasty sound?

 

I'm perfectly happy with an Anedio D1 biggrin.gif



 

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post #4 of 5
6/21/11 at 5:18pm
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Want to buy as soon as possible! Any more input?

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post #5 of 5
6/21/11 at 8:31pm

Here are a couple more:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/09-NEW-VERSION-ZERO-DAC-HEAD-AMP-OPA627-24-192KHZ-/120705972208?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c1aa2f7f0

 

http://cgi.ebay.ca/Topping-TP-D2-Portable-Head-AMP-USB-DAC-sound-card-/260699665720?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cb2e93538

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